Word: mucha
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...climax was the turn of the century, in 1900. But in that brief time the look of Western capitals-and especially their bourgeois interiors-was utterly transformed by architects led by Victor Horta and Hector Guimard, designer of the Paris Metro entrances; poster artists like Privat Livemont and Alphonse Mucha; designers of jewelry like René Lalique; glassmakers and ceramists like Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Gallé and Felix Bracquemond. A new style of luxury art, the last great mannerism, had been found. Because of a hostility to "applied" as against "high" art, and because Cézanne...
...Nouveau artist named Mucha...
...ALPHONSE MUCHA by Jiri Mucha, Marina Henderson & Aaron Scharf. 136 pages. St. Martin's Press...
...naked woman, body-painted like a Tiffany lamp shade, decorates the latest ads for Casino Royale; dust jackets for Madame Sarah and Louis Auchincloss' Tales of Manhattan look like so much leftover Alfons Mucha. From coast to coast, be-ins, folk-rock festivals, art galleries and department-store sales are now advertised in posters and layouts done in a style that is beginning to be called Nouveau Frisco. Unmistakably a vapor from the seething psychedelic dreamland of The Haight-Ashbury district (TIME, March 17), Nouveau Frisco currently has as its foremost practitioner Robert Wesley Wilson...
Wilson admits that he has been influenced by Mucha, Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, and "the expressionist idea of really putting it out there...